[SunRescue] Solaris 7 and SS10

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyndon Griffin [mailto:lgriffin at BSD4US.ORG]
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:12 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Solaris 7 and SS10
> 
> 
> OK - probably James L can answer this, but I'll throw it to 
> the group...

I'll try, just in the interests of making myself look like a fool.  :)

> Will an older PROM version on an SS10 prevent booting from a 
> drive that
> was installed on a system with a newer PROM?  I built a new OS for a
> production machine on an SS10 with a 3.2x PROM, plugged it 
> into the SS10
> with a 2.10 PROM, and I get something like SCSI message 
> missed and corrupt
> disk label.  I haven't put the drive back on the newer SS10, 
> yet, as it's
> in a different city.  Please tell me I didn't cook the drive 
> in transit ;)

I don't see how a PROM downgrade could cause a drive to not work, unless
there was some piece of hardware on the motherboard that required a newer
prom to exist.  Actually, I'd expect that not to affect drives, but maybe
audio, or some other semi-trivial system.  Mind you, the latest PROM
revision I know of for the SS10 is 2.25, and not 3.2x.  That said, I don't
really get magic numbers.
	Greg